So I blasted my wheels, painted them silver and got the masking kit. It doesn't line up for crap but I can get past that. What's the trick to masking off the outer ring of the wheel center? It's only about 5/16" wide. I can't lay tape on there anywhere near straight. I was thinking about some thick flexible substance like foam rubber or some type of trim molding?? I can't be the first person to try this...
DJ

My son and I masked that area as well as we could and then he freehanded some touch up silver to smooth it out when we were done.

It took me awhile but if you use short overlapping peices of masking tape you can cover it. I also used a exacto knife (very carefully) to cut the rounded interior curves. And if there is any bleeding I touched up later.

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I'm in the same boat of buying those POS masking kits. So far I've found vinyl pin stripe sticks the best, and is very flexible. Now if I can find the time to get them painted.

Here's a multi-page story of the masking kits: /forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/72531/1.html
I used Scotch 3M Fine Line Tape and a lot of sharp Xacto blades.

The masking kits will work, too, but they´ll have to be cut into pieces and be modified:

First paint charcoal,
then mask...





...then paint argent. Done

I thought about doing it backwards like Thomas. But I already painted the silver.

Of course, you can do it the other way round, too. But I found it easier to mask the blacked out inner section because you´ll see pretty easy where the spokes begin and end...

Just my 0.2 cents